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Following Ginsburg’s hospitalization, her nephew Daniel Stiepleman, who wrote On the Basis of Sex — a film centered around Ginsburg’s fight for gender equality as a young lawyer — told Reuters that his aunt was “doing great.”

“The last I heard she was up and working, of course, because what else would she be doing, and cracking jokes,” he told the news agency at the premiere of the film on Thursday. “I can’t promise they were good jokes but they were jokes.”

“On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them,” Ginsburg said in a statement. “Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect.”

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“She went home, but after experiencing discomfort overnight, went to George Washington University Hospital early this morning,” the statement continued. “Tests showed that she fractured three ribs on her left side and she was admitted for observation and treatment.”

Although Ginsburg’s fall gave Democrats a fright, this isn’t the first time the Supreme Court judge has been injured and kept on working.

In August 2012, Ginsburg revealed she had hurt two ribs during a fall that June, Reuters reported. “At first I thought it was nothing,” Ginsburg said at the time.

She continued to work despite her injury. “[She] followed her schedule as usual,” Arberg told Reuters at the time. “She indeed did not skip a beat and did not feel it rose to a serious health concern.”

Ginsburg has also survived both colon cancer and pancreatic cancer.

In August, she said she hopes to have several more years on the Supreme Court. “I’m now 85,” she said at an event, according to CNN. “My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years.”

In January, it was reported that Ginsburg was hiring law clerks for at least two more terms on the bench, which CNN confirmed.

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